Last week I came accross Ben’s article about the creation of realistic Test Data for CRM Project. He

Hi alf I need to block import for some entities how can I do that?

I don't want to limit permissions as user should still update from UI. Need some ideas

I have imported a trial set of records into an entity called premises.  The import contains address details and is directly imported using the wizard.  All works fine but when I go to documentation I get a message that a folder already exists for this record on sharepoint (when in fact it does not) if I click OK I get a message to add a location and it wants me to specify the location for each record.  This is not the way we want to do this as when a new premises record is created the documentation folder is created in the correct place when click on documentation.  Any Ideas?

Regards

Julie

Is it possible to know when importing data in the plugin code?

I mean if it's import operation, plugin should do something, if not other.

Hi Marky,

THanks!!  You can import attachments, but you will have to create your own zip file and .csv pointing to the attachment.  It is a bit complex, but doable.  The biggest item is the size limit.  YOur zip file won't be able to have large attachments due to the 8 MB limit.  If you do need to import attachments and activities I'd recomend scribe.

Hi Nagalaxmi,

There are some fields that you can not import/update such as modifiedon and createdon -- you can not update/import these two columns.  However, there is a field you can import called overridecreatedon which will set the 'created on' date.

Hi Alex, I am trying to get teh dat afrom Dynamics AX 2009 into Dynamics CRM. The error I am getting on the connector is that modifiedDateTime field does not exist on any of the tables.

Any pointers?

Thanks

HI Alex...great post.  I am specifically intersted in trying out the imports for salesforce data maps...looks like it's limited to Contacts and Accounts?  What about activity or attachments?

thanks!